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TO THE FOLLOWING INQUIRIES, !X RELATION TO THE 



Eclectic System of Medicine 



What is its Origin ? 

What are its Principles ? 

What are its Remedies ? 

What is its Popularity and Organization ? 

What are its Medical Institutions ? 

What is its Literature ? 

What is the success of the Eclectic Practice ? 

What are its Claims to Public Patronage ? 



DESIGNED FOR ALL PERSONS SEEKING THE TRUTH AS TO THE 

RELATIVE MERITS OF THE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF 

MEDICAL PRACTICE. 



BY 
PAUL W. ALLEN, M. D., 

Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Eclectic Medical College of the 
City of Xew York ; President of the Eclectic Medical Society of the City of Xew 
York; Honorary Member of the State Eclectic Medical Societies of Mas- 
sachusetts and Connecticut; Life Member of the American 
Institute, etc., etc. 

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NEW YORK : 

PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR. 

1869. 



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The Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York 

Commences its Sixth Session Oct. 13th, 1869, (Preliminary Course, attendance optional, 
Oct. 1.) at the College Building, 223 East 26th St. The Session will continue eighteen 
weeks ; the Hospital facilities of New York are more extensive than those of any other 
city, either American or European ; and the Faculty will give a very full course of Lec- 
tures. 

Professors : 

J. R. BUCHANAN, M. D., Emeritus Professor and Lecturer on the Institutes 

of Medicine. 
R. S. XEWTOX, M. D., Operative Surgery and Surgical Diseases. 
P. W. ALLEN, M. D., Theory and Practice of Medicine. 
W. W- HADLEY, M. D., Materia Medica and Therapeutics. 
J. M. COMINS, M. D.. Obstetrics and Diseases of Females. 
E. TREEMAN, M. D., Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy. 
J. M. F. BROWNE. M. D., Physiology and Pathology. 
J. M. SANDERS, M. D., Chemistry. 
H. D. GARRISON, M. D., Pharmacy. 
FRANK TABOR, A. M., Medical Jurisprudence. 
JOHN H. FITCH, M. D., Demonstrator, and Adjunct Professor of Anatomy. 



The American Eclectic Medical Review 

Commences its fifth Volume, July 1, 1869. This is an elegant and able journal of pro- 
gressive medicine and surgery ; forty-eight pages monthly ; $2.00 per year ; edited by 
Prof. R. S. Newton, M. D., Prof. J. M. F. Browne, M. D., L. L. D., and P. A. Morrow, 
M. D. ; with a large list of contributors. Address: Eclectic Medical Review, 30 East 
19th St., New York City, N. Y. 



This Pam phlet 

Is designed for circulation by Eclectic Medical Societies and Physicians, and also by 
those friends and patrons of the Eclectic System who have proved its efficacy upon them- 
selves, or in their families, and who desire to extend the benefits of this Practice, by in- 
ducing others to understand and appreciate it. The form and size of this pamphlet are 
such that it can be folded and sent in an ordinary letter envelope. Persons wishing to 
procure it, will send $5.00 for every hundred copies wanted, and they will be immedi- 
ately forwarded by express, or as may otherwise be ordered. Send, (by Post Office 
Money Order, if possible.) to 

PAUL W. ALLEN, M. D., 
Ill East 82d St., 

New York City, N. Y. 



Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by 

PAUL W. ALLEN, 

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District 

of New York. 



THE ECLECTIC SYSTEM OF MEDICINE 

Its Origin, Remedies, Success, Etc. 



THE CHOICE OF A PHYSICIAN. 

"What Doctor shall we send for?" These have been important 
and familiar words in many a home. A member of the family has 
become suddenly and violently sick, and some medical advisor must 
be called. What responsibility in that call ! Many have rejoiced 
in the selection of their physician, for he knew well the disease, and 
his remedies were successful. Others, not a few, have bitterly re- 
gretted that they employed the physician whom they did ; for the 
treatment did no good, or did injury rather than good, or seemed to 
so aggravate the disease that it proved fatal ; and those who called 
the physician deeply deplore that they employed any medical at- 
tendant — or, at any rate, one whose services seemed worse than 
useless. 

How important then that the entire public know something of 
medical principles and practice ! Upon the choice of a physician 
often seems to depend the life or death of the patient. How impor- 



tant that the relative merits of the Allopathic, the Homoeopathic, 
and Eclectic systems of practice be well understood by every person. 
All are liable to sickness, at any time, and the choice of a physi- 
cian should be made with care and discrimination, in the hours of 
calm and responsible reasoning, and not at the moment of sudden 
sickness and fearful anxiety. 

Your mind is settled on one point — that you will employ a man 
who is intelligent in his profession. You have no confidence in 
mere pretence. Y^ou want a physician who will thoroughly under- 
stand your disease and its remedies. But you say: " Shall I have 
an Allopath, or a Homoeopath, or an Eclectic? Which of these 
systems is most reasonable in its principles, and therefore entitled 
to my inteligent confidence ? What is the success of the different 
systems ?" Among the physicians whose services you may com- 
mand, it is your duty to be informed, when in health, as to their 
relative success. Make careful observation and inquiry, free from 
prejudice. From such inquiry, ascertain what system is successful. 

In politics and religion, the people are educated as to party prin- 
ciples and denominational tenets. Political papers and pamphlets 
are in every family ; and in every campaign, public addresses are 
given, setting forth, in the most earnest and clear manner, the acts, 
principles and proposed policy of each party. The people are no 
longer the blind tools of tyranical leaders, but they are thus so edu- 
cated that the public sentiment becomes an irresistible influence ; 
and no party can long remain in power whose acts are not conso- 
nant with the public interest and general welfare. 

Just so among religious denominations. Every pains is taken by 
the clergy, by tracts, and by religious newspapers, to inform the 
people as to their belief, and as to the reasons for that belief. This 
is as it should be. It is in strong contrast with the past ; but it 
ensures the rights, and the enlightenment, and the happiness, of the 
whole family of man. Just so, too, of every great public interest. 
Every important question of law, of humanity, of education, of pub- 



lie enterprise, of national progress, of discovery, is daily discussed, 
among all the masses ; and its practicability and adoption are 
largely dependent upon that mighty public sentiment which is fast 
becoming the power of the world, and the blessing of its millions. 
Let any principles or remedies which have been proved to be true 
and practical, be presented to the intelligent judgment of an ob- 
serving public, and no medical sect can long resist them, by ignor- 
ing them, or nursing a contempt for them, or by ignorantly or self- 
ishly decrying them. Let the people be informed as thoroughly as 
possible, as to medical principles and practice, watch closely the 
relative success of the different classes of practitioners, and judge 
for themselves. This alone is their safety, for it will lead them to 
know with what physicians their health and their lives are safest. 

The writer of this, after a medical experience of nearly twenty-six 
years, about equally divided between country, city and hospital 
practice, believes that any person who will carefully inquire as to 
the practice of intelligent Eclectic physicians, will decide that they 
are far more successful and reliable than those of any other school. 
The reader may suppose that we were educated in this system, and 
that having practiced it, we are thus prejudiced in its favor. Our 
education was as opposed to Eclecticism as was St. Paul's to Christi- 
anity, or as was that of Galileo to free philosophy, or as that of Wash- 
ington to a republican government. And almost every Eclectic phy- 
sician, educated a quarter of a century since, was convinced of the cor- 
rectness in theory, and success in practice, of this system, against all 
the impressions of his early manhood's education, and by the superior 
success of Eclectic remedies. He saw. again and again, the want of 
success of Allopathic physicians, in bilious, typhoid, lung, and 
rheumatic fevers ; in diarrhoea and dysentery ; in croup, scarlet 
fever, and other diseases common to infancy ; in incipient consump- 
tion, in liver diseases, in scrofula, in eruptive diseases, and in most 
chronic affections. He saw other physicians, some of them known 
as Botanies, Thomsonians, or Eeformed Physicians, very successful 



in all these and various other diseases. My own medical studies, 
and those of many others, were with Allopathic physicians ; and 
whilst we admired the treasures of medical science gathered by emi- 
nent Allopathic authors, in works on anatomy, physiology, pathol- 
ogy, medical chemistry, therapeutics, obstetrics, and other depart- 
ments of professional learning, we painfully saw that the remedies 
employed were unsuccessful ; that a large proportion of cases were 
fatal ; and that the reducing of disease by blood-letting, calomel, 
opium, and antimony was very uncertain ; that almost all this prac- 
tice of letting out the life-blood, and poisoning the system by mer- 
cury, and depressing the vital power by antimony, and stupefying 
the system by opium, was unscientific in theory, utterly opposed to 
the hygienic laws of the system, and dreadfully fatal to the sick. 
And very much of this practice is still most persistently insisted on 
in Allopathic works on the practice of medicine, and by their lec- 
turers in medical colleges ; and if the Allopathic profession has, to 
some extent, discontinued these agencies, as indeed they have, it is 
the strongest practical admission that we were right, and they were 
mistaken. 

THE OEIGIN OF ECLECTICISM. 

The Eclectic system of medicine is American in its ideas and in 
its remedies. It is the child of American free thought and practical 
sagacity. It was first announced to the world by its definite name 
about the year 1845. In the very early history of medicine there 
was a sect of physicians known as Eclectics, but they neither knew 
the remedies or principles which now distinguish Eclectics ; and in 
modern times, the term Eclectic was first suggested to designate 
our system of practice by Calvin Fletcher, Esq., of Cincinnati, 
Ohio. Twenty years previous to that time, Dr. Samuel Thompson, a 
son of New Hampshire, had announced the great practical truths that 
we must sustain the vital powers ; that stimulation, and not deple- 



tion, is the true theory of medicine, and that relaxants and stimu- 
lants are agents of great efficacy in breaking up, or safely treating, 
fevers and inflammations. He was the first physician to recommend 
enemas as a general substitute for cathartics ; and he almost entirely 
rejected, in either acute or chronic diseases, the use of cathartics — 
a peculiarity of medical opinion never entertained by Eclectics. 
Wooster Beach, M. D., of New York, had also published, at least 
fifteen years before 1845, "the American System of Medicine;'/ 
and in this work he had most decidedly opposed the whole system 
of blood-letting, calomel and antimony ; advocated supporting regi- 
men and remedies; introduced a great many valuable medicinal 
plants into the materia medica ; and suggested most distinctive and 
valuable plans of treatment for fevers and inflammations, for diar- 
rhoea and dysentery, for malignant cholera ; and he also advocated 
many new methods of treating various chronic diseases. 

In 1836, the "Western Medical Keformer" was first published 
in Worthington, Ohio ; a college was established soon after that 
date; and in 1845 the Eclectic Medical School of Cincinnati was 
incorporated ; and about this time, the Worcester (Mass.,) Eclectic 
Medical College. Since that time, several others have been estab- 
lished; and there are now at least four — educating hundreds of 
physicians annually — one in New York, one in Cincinnati, one in 
Philadelphia, and one in Chicago. From each of these cities is 
now issued a monthly journal of Eclectic medicine and surgery, and 
they are patronized by our physicians in every State — keeping our 
practitioners informed of the numerous new remedies discovered in 
every section of the union ; and also faithfully advising them as to 
the discoyeries made by Allopathic and Homoeopathic physicians in 
every part of the world. 



WHAT AKE THE PRINCIPLES OF ECLECTICISM? 

Eclecticism is the inductive system of reasoning applied to medi- 
cine. It has its basis in physiology and hygiene. It studies care- 
fully the functions of the human system, and it believes that most 
diseases are essentially the departures from healthy functional ac- 
tion. It uses such agents as restore the healthy action of the ali- 
mentary canal, liver, kidneys, and skin, and as equalize the circu- 
lation. It does other things besides these, but these things it seeks 
to do in almost every instance, as the primary and essential duty of 
the physician. It enjoins upon the patient to live in accordance 
with the laws of hygiene, and instructs him how to do this. It 
seeks to use as few remedies as possible which interfere with healtky 
functional action. It avoids violent and irritating cathartics, which 
produce disease of the stomach and bowels, and greatly reduce the 
strength and prostrate the system ; and, in their stead, it uses unir- 
ritating, but sometimes active, cathartics, which cleanse the alimen- 
tary system and correct its secretions. The Eclectic code does net 
proscribe a physician for using calomel, for it declares the largest 
liberty of individual opinion, t; without constraint, let or hindrance f 
but we have discovered far better remedies to act on the liver thas 
calomel or blue mass ; and they are so superior that probably v&t 
one Eclectic in a hundred ever directs his patient to swallow any 
mercurials. They are generally disapproved of, as liable to create 
inflammation of the stomach and intestines ; as uncertain in thek 
action on the liver ; and as most poisonous remedies, which tend is 
depress the vital powers, poison the fluids of the system, and sub- 
ject the patient to future disease. 

Eclectics ever seek to support the system ; to nourish patients, and 
not to starve them. They endeavor to restore normal functions, and 
not to depress them ; to sustain the strength, and not to exhaust it 
They efficiently restore the healthy secretions of the bile, of the 



urine and of the perspiration ; and they greatly depend on thus as- 
sisting nature as a means of cure. How contrary is all this to the 
opinions of Allopathy a few years since ; for even so leading a 
teacher and professor as Dr. Eush, of Philadelphia, said: " As to 
nature, I would treat it in a sick chamber as I would a squalling 
eat — open the door and drive it out." 

Instead of taking blood out of the system by bleeding, the Eclec- 
tic equalizes the circulation, and thus overcomes local determinations 
of the blood and inflammations in any of the organs. He evacuates 
any excess of blood, by acting powerfully on the kidneys, the bowels, 
and the skin, and thus carries off this excess by draining off the 
waste constituents of the blood, instead of removing the vital fluid 
as a whole. Twenty years ago, the most eminent Allopathic teachers 
and practitioners insisted on blood-letting in almost every severe 
case of any inflammation or fever ; and the same Dr. Eush whom we 
nave just quoted, in speaking of blood-letting in yellow fever, de- 
clared it to be the magnum bonum Dei — the great gift of Grod.° 
The Eclectic purifies and enriches the blood, but never wastes it, 
or poisons it. 

The Eclectic uses counter-irritants, dry cupping, and a temporary 
ligation of the limbs, to overcome local inflammation ; but very sel- 
dom, or never, resorts to blisters. His use of opiates is exceedingly 
limited, and rather to relieve present, urgent symptoms, than to 
really depend on them as means of positive cure. He regards opi- 
ates, in any considerable quantity, as poisonous; and his use of 
any vegetable poisons is quite limited ; and in the doses in which he 
uses them, they can scarcely be regarded as poisons. He is pos- 
itively opposed to arsenic, lead, mercury, and other mineral poisons, 
fceeause the system cannot fully eliminate them, and they remain as 
poisons in the system, injuring the constitution, and developing 
many diseases in the various organs and tissues. 

Such are the general principles of the medical treatment of Amer- 

^8ee Life of Prof. Benj. SillimaD, Vol. i., page 105. 



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ican Eclectics. How unlike is this to the Allopathic system, as 
taught in their medical colleges and works, in France, Great Britain, 
and the United States ! And yet these principles have approved 
themselves to hundreds of men once educated to Allopathy, but who 
are now Eclectics, practising in every part of our country. And 
hundreds of other physicians, choosing their school of practice in 
the outset of professional life, and from careful investigation as 
seekers of medical science, have graduated as Eclectics, and are ex- 
tensively practising this system with eminent success. In every 
State in the Union are many physicians who have, acting individu- 
ally as medical observers and thinkers, arrived at the same results 
as to the true doctrines of medical science, and as to the remedies 
to be preferred. As we have before remarked, in an Annual Ad- 
dress before the Eclectic Medical Society of the State of New York, 
delivered in the Assembly Chamber, Albany, Jan. 15, 1868 : '• We 
challenge the history of the world to produce the instance of so 
large a number of intelligent men coming to the same conclusions, 
adopting the same essential platform of belief, without having been 
educated and disciplined by organization. " It should now be added, 
that nearly all the remedies and methods of treatment thus gener- 
ally adopted by Eclectics continue to be used, and maintain that 
estimation for efficiency with which they were severally announced 
by their individual discoverers. Surely, here is sagacity making- 
science — a scientific system of remedies. 

WHAT ABE OUB BEMEDIES ? 

The discoveries of American Eclectics have been so numerous and 
so exceedingly valuable, that we can only refer to them in general 
terms. Hundreds of new remedies have been discovered and devel- 
oped by us ; remedies beyond price in efficacy, in almost every class 
of diseases. We do not reject any remedy because it is used by 
allopaths or by homoeopaths. On the contrary, we are very grateful 



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for every valuable remedy discovered by any one ; but every intel- 
ligent Eclectic will testify that the agents and methods of treatment 
discovered by our school alone, within the last twenty-five years, 
are of more practical value, to save life and cure the sick, than all 
the remedies which had previously been discovered, by all other 
schools of practice, since medicine had a history or mankind an ex- 
istence. The variety and efficacy of our remedies are the wonder 
and delight of all who intelligently test them ; and new ones are 
every year being discovered by enterprising and progressive minds. 
The United States embrace every variety of soil and climate, plants 
of all the zones grow therein, and they are contributed, along with 
the remedies of all other countries and climates, to our materia 
medica. We invite facts from all persons, the world over, whether 
physicians or not, as to the action of any newly tested agent, 
whether used by the profession or as a domestic remedy. To the 
success of our remedies, thus learned by humble and therefore re- 
ceptive minds, we shall again have occasion to refer, when we speak 
of the success of the Eclectic practice. Such remedies give our 
physicians an enthusiasm and devotion to practice, which are in 
striking contrast with the declarations of Allopathic physicians and 
authors. We cannot enlarge on this point, but we will quote a few 
sentences from an address by the learned Prof. Thomas Watson, 
author of "Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic, de- 
livered at King's College, London." No name in Allopathic medi- 
cine is higher than his as an authority in practice. And yet this 
erudite and logical man said, in an address before the London Clin- 
ical Society, in 1868: "Certainly the greatest gap in the science 
of medicine is to be found in its final and supreme stage — the stage 
of therapeutics." " We know tolerably well ivhat it is we have to 
deal with, but we do not know so well, nor anything like so well, 
how to deal with it." "To me it has been a lifelong wonder how 
vaguely, how ignorantly, how rashly, drugs are often prescribed. 
We try this, and, not succeeding, we try that ; and, baffled again, 



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we try some thing else." " Our profession is continually fluctuating 
on a sea of doubts about questions of the gravest importance." 
1 ' Of Therapeutics, as a trustworthy science, it is certain that we 
have as yet only the expectation. " 

Such is the testimony of Sir Thomas Watson, in 1868, before the 
elite of the profession in London, in reference to Allopathic reme- 
dies ! Thank God, American Eclectics have remedies in which they 
trust, for almost every curable disease. 

IS ECLECTICISM POPULAR AND ORGANIZED ? 

Never did any system make such progress in popular favor and in- 
telligent confidence. Nearly twenty years ago, Allopathy began to es- 
sentially lose the confidence of the public. It was too fatal to retain 
favor. Educated people were surprised that the profession, with all 
the acquirements of many generations, were so unsuccessful in both 
acute and chronic diseases ; and very many among the better in- 
formed classes adopted Homoeopathy ; not indeed, because, in most 
instances, they had any special faith in it, but for the reason that 
its remedies were pleasant, and they supposed its doses would not 
destroy life, if they did not save it. They knew of nothing better 
than this one idea system of "like cures like," and of infinitely 
small doses. But now it is vastly different. In every section of the 
country, Eclecticism is rapidly gaining ; and not one-fourth of the 
applications for Eclectic physicians can be filled by the graduates of 
Eclectic colleges. Our practitioners are now numbered by thousands, 
and most of them are very busily employed ; and not one in an hun- 
dred can be induced to take a new field of professional labor, for the 
very reason that his time and talents are so fully employed and ap- 
preciated where he is. 

State Societies, incorporated by law, exist in Connecticut, Massa- 
chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maine, Vermont, Ohio, and sev- 
eral other states. County Societies, auxiliary to the State organiza- 



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tions, are rapidly multiplying ; and all their most useful essays and 
discussions are published, along with those of the State Societies, in 
volumes of Annual Transactions ; and in the State of New York it 
is done in an illustrated octavo volume, of about four hundred 
pages, at the expense of the State. The press everywhere com- 
mends our enterprise and our success. Eclecticism has made so 
extensive and so favorable an impression on the American mind 
that it is fast becoming the system of this country. 

WHAT IS OUE LITERATURE ? 

We hold many branches of medical learning in common with 
other schools of practice. "We have no occasion to publish separate 
works on these branches. Physicians of all schools study the same 
text books of Anatomy, Physiology, and Chemistry. In Surgery 
and Obstetrics our doctrines and practice are, in many respects, 
quite different ; and we have made valuable improvements in treat- 
ment. Pour large works on Obstetrics have been published hj Pro- 
fessors Beach, King, Sites, and Longshore, besides various smaller 
works on this subject. Works on Surgery have been issued by Pro- 
fessors R. S. Newton, and Hill. Volumes on Materia Meclica and 
Therapeutics have been published by Professors King and Newton, 
L. E. Jones and Scudder, Hollembaek, and Dr. G-rover Coe. Works 
on the Practice of Medicine have been written by Professors Beach, 
Morrow and I. G-. Jones, I. G-. Jones and Wm. Sherwood, M. D., 
Powell and R. S. Newton, Potter, Paine, Scudder, and Buchanan. 
Works on the Diseases of Women have been given to the profession 
by Professors King, and Scudder ; and on the Diseases of Children 
by Professors Powell and Newton, Newton, and Buchanan. These, 
with volumes on Domestic Practice, Chemistry, Botany, Physiology. 
Microscopy, Urino-Pathology, Syphilis, and other subjects, show the 
industry, the enterprise, and the culture of this branch of the pro- 
fession. An honorable record this to the intellect of these reformers 



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and benefactors of mankind. Besides all these works, published 
within the last twenty-five years, in large and frequent editions, we 
have a list of twenty medical periodicals, published within the same 
time, as enumerated in Dr. M. M. Fenners "Beport on Eclectic 
Medical Literature," made to the New York State Society, January, 
1868. In the number of works on remedies and treatment, it is 
probable that we have excelled any other branch of the profession 
in this country. 

WHAT IS THE SUCCESS OF THE ECLECTIC PBACTICE ? 

We can specify only a few diseases, but these are the types of our 
success in others. First of all, we ought to say to those who have 
not seen this practice, that at least four-fifths of all cases of fever 
are broken up within the first three days of our attendance. This 
is not true of typhoid fevers taken alone, because they have usually 
progressed some days before we see them ; but it is true of bilious, 
intermittent, rheumatic and lung fevers. In the various acute in- 
flammations of separate organs, our remedies are exceedingly effica- 
cious. Our agents to equalize the circulation and restore the secre- 
tions arc so rapid in their action that they overcome congestion and 
cut short acute inflammation with surprising power. Sudden at- 
tacks, like pleurisy, croup, inflammation of the kidneys, etc., usually 
last but a few hours ; and blood-poison diseases, like erysipelas, 
scarlet fever, measles and small-pox are far more safely carried 
through than under any other treatment. The diseases peculiar to 
children are treated with great success, especially the diseases con- 
nected with teething, and the bowel affections, and croups and ca- 
tarrhs to which children are so subject. 

For diseases of the stomach we have numerous and excellent 
tonics, stimulants and other agents ; for diseases of the liver, alter- 
atives which succeed where every preparation of mercury fails ; in 
diseases of the kidneys and bladder, we have remedies the efficacy 



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at which would surprise the most intense specialists of London and 
Paris. In dropsy, where there is no organic disease, the new rem- 
edies act with surprising power, and cure in cases in which there is 
no hope under any other form of treatment. In the various chronic 
eruptions of the skin, our alteratives are unrivalled. In general 
debility and incipient consumption, thousands can testify to the 
rallying power of Eclectic treatment. In constipation, we have ex- 
cellent and permanent remedies ; in bilious colic our peculiar reme- 
dies often relieve the intestinal spasm in half an hour ; in diar- 
rhoea, dysentery, cholera morbus and Asiatic cholera our practi- 
tioners have a success which always and everywhere distinguishes 
them. In the medical and surgical treatment of tumors, cancers 
and piles, we are in advance of the age in which we live. In fe- 
male diseases, both functional and organic, we have a general treat- 
ment and local remedies which have everywhere made our practi- 
tioners the favorites of the ladies, in these diseases. 

Such is only a brief statement, correct in every particular, and 
which is demonstrated by the success of every intelligent Eclectic 
physician. Test these statements by giving a fair trial to this 
system. If successful, as we claim, give American Eclecticism 
your patronage, and the public the benefit of your influence. 



